There’s also both a C++ and Go implementation in the upstream repo. I don’t think OpenNTPD would ever support Roughtime though, as it’s a completely different protocol.

On the tlsdate side of things, the TLS 1.3 incompatibility comes from the change to timestamps being OPTIONAL due to performance reasons. Roughtime seems more interesting to me due to the additional features it offers.

I used a custom bash script for a long time, but eventually switched to Stow and a custom Makefile. For me, the advantage is mostly organizational. It’s nice to install a subset of configs, have different configs depending on operating system or environment, an easy ability to remove the configs, etc. The flexibility of the --no-folding option is also nice depending on whether or not everything in a directory is managed via Git.

There are a lot of dotfile management frameworks out there, but Stow is a very simple tool that’s ubiquitously available as a package, but also trivial to bootstrap into a local directory if you don’t have admin rights on a machine.

$ mkdir -p ~/.local/src
$ cd ~/.local/src/
$ curl https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow/stow-latest.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd stow-2.2.2/
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/elasticdog/.local
$ make
$ make install

I also just use a script. It seems so trivial to me, a new piece of software shouldn’t be necessary.

One feature of Stow that I find useful is the ability to undo the symlinks. I use that feature to install two versions of a program in /usr/local/stow and easily switch between the two.

I’m curious about this as well…I’ve cloned third-party repos that have choked due to fsckobjects, but I’ve always just temporarily turned that off to proceed and have not looked into how you would actually fix it. I’d guess though that any fix would require a force push on the repository, which could alter quite a bit of history and be problematic for well-established repos.

I’m with @elasticdog, I prefer Beancount, too. It has more checks builtin to detect mistakes (protecting me from myself) and fava’s pretty sweet. My family also uses Moneydance (also recommended, but not command line) and I export that data as XML and swizzle it into Beancount. Very happy with this system.

Martian has done a great job documenting Beancount, too. Checkout the Cookbook and all the Beancount documentation.

Thanks for these resources.

I manage to balance my entire year’s accounting using Ledger every year. It’s a marathon session every time, but it works. It also may be time for me too look at improving my process.

Yes, thanks for the link! I’ve tried to read introductions to accounting before, but I have quickly been defeated. I just started reading the one by Beancount’s author here and it’s the only one that’s ever really been helpful. The focus on +/- rather than debit/credit makes so much more sense to me.

Up to $500 monthly! Wow. My private 10m^2 rented office is about a third of that :-D (I’m in room 203.)